Hook up sites like Recon and Adam4 Adam

[NWUSHorny]

The biggest problem I have with the hookup sites locally is that they are all quickly taken over by guys looking for a relationship, and not a NSA hookup. Which makes them almost completely useless.

Actually that is true for in person cruising, even at the bathhouse it seems like a majority are looking for permanent boyfriend.

Edited April 4, 2022 by NWUSHorny

[11bi11guy]

On 3/14/2022 at 2:51 PM, Muscledadbod said:

Scruff is full of men who are full of themselves! Yawn...

Totally. I had a couple good hookups through Scruff when I was getting divorced a few years ago, but I had to wade through a million long conversations to get there. Once I was fully divorced and more free to let my slut flag fly, I started using Sniffies and Grindr and completely gave up on Scruff.

Had a couple meet ups through Squirt. Squirt is kind of a hybrid hookup site/community board/social media. Not a great hookup site and not great design, but good for checking out cruising traffic, good options for posting videos and stories, and the best adult gay video chat room I’ve been able to find (which isn’t saying much).

Never been on Recom. A4A sucks and is full of bots and flakes. BarebackRT/BBRT is intriguing, but it doesn’t seem like there are that many guys on there. Grindr has been alright. Better hookup percentage than Squirt, but definitely lower than the last….

Sniffies is my favorite. I’ve found a lot of good quality dick there, and I had a semi-successful gangbang organized through Sniffies. A lot of guys in major cities all along the West Coast and Chicago. You can see where other guys are on the map, check out cruising traffic, and post an event like BBRT.

[an0nt0p]

I used to use A4A back in the day. Would search "anything goes" bottoms. Nowadays it's all spam.

[cockfun69]

I had two duds (one each-way) on Squirt at weekend. First, pic-less, profile was visiting nearby and wanted to meet. Decided as he was mature that he could be trusted, swapped couple of messages then gave him my number .. when he disappeared 😞
Having got myself and the bedroom ready for no reason I decided to take the plunge with a local slightly younger stud who'd been online all afternoon. I suspected he'd had no luck, messaged him and he was well up for it and only round the corner. but after waiting another hour I gave up and got my meals ready 😞

[BBVB]

3 hours ago, 11bi11guy said:

Totally. I had a couple good hookups through Scruff when I was getting divorced a few years ago, but I had to wade through a million long conversations to get there. Once I was fully divorced and more free to let my slut flag fly, I started using Sniffies and Grindr and completely gave up on Scruff.

Had a couple meet ups through Squirt. Squirt is kind of a hybrid hookup site/community board/social media. Not a great hookup site and not great design, but good for checking out cruising traffic, good options for posting videos and stories, and the best adult gay video chat room I’ve been able to find (which isn’t saying much).

Never been on Recom. A4A sucks and is full of bots and flakes. BarebackRT/BBRT is intriguing, but it doesn’t seem like there are that many guys on there. Grindr has been alright. Better hookup percentage than Squirt, but definitely lower than the last….

Sniffies is my favorite. I’ve found a lot of good quality dick there, and I had a semi-successful gangbang organized through Sniffies. A lot of guys in major cities all along the West Coast and Chicago. You can see where other guys are on the map, check out cruising traffic, and post an event like BBRT.

Interesting comments about your successes on Sniffies.  Here in South Florida, I find the crowd very strange and more often than not Ive seen guys change their stats and pics where it seems on the surface they are a different person when they are not.  Mind fuckers!

[NWUSHorny]

I'm yet to actually hookup with anyone from Sniffies. Most of the guys here in Portland are only interested in the video chat option. No one has to touch anyone else's cock or worry about someone touching theirs in video chat.

[BannedWord]

17 hours ago, BBVB said:

Interesting comments about your successes on Sniffies.  Here in South Florida, I find the crowd very strange and more often than not Ive seen guys change their stats and pics where it seems on the surface they are a different person when they are not.  Mind fuckers!

What tends to annoy me about Sniffies is that there are too many lurkers without a picture, indicate they want to hookup, and act like they've never heard the word "no" if you aren't interested. It's not a sales pitch!

[BlackDude]

On 4/4/2022 at 2:40 PM, NWUSHorny said:

The biggest problem I have with the hookup sites locally is that they are all quickly taken over by guys looking for a relationship, and not a NSA hookup. Which makes them almost completely useless.

Actually that is true for in person cruising, even at the bathhouse it seems like a majority are looking for permanent boyfriend.

Or guys pretending they are looking for a relationship. 
 

 

[NWUSHorny]

19 minutes ago, BlackDude said:

Or guys pretending they are looking for a relationship. 
 

 

They aren't looking for casual sex, which begs the question what are they looking for other than attention?

[toolman1966]

Relatively new here on BZ, but love reading comments from others.  Wish I knew about this site years ago.  Recon, BBRT, & squirt is useless for me.  Grindr has been very successful for me.  Found a Top in my apartment complex who I have never seem before since we live on opposite sides on a large complex (multi buildings).  He's an older Alpha male type and knows how I love being fucked.  In the last few weeks we have hooked up 3 times per week and even shared me with another Top who's hookup 2 since that day. 

I travel a little for work and grindr has lead to 3 other Tops. 

[leatherpunk16]

In my 30s, I was on as many sites as possible. Where I lived back then produced this kind of environment and behaviour. EVERYONE ELSE in the city was doing the same thing, and trying to cast wider nets. I started out with Men4SexNow, but once I had my fuckbuddies, I dropped it. Met my (now) ex on A4A, and had a couple interesting dates from others. In recent years, it became a place for Russian bots trying to scam me by getting me invested and suddenly needing money for one crisis or another. I got tired of it. Manhunt yielded nothing, too many drugs and unhealthy behaviours on NKP, and Grindr was laughably bad and full of guys who didn't reply to messages. I've been on Recon for a long time, and it yielded some good results, but nothing that recent. I joined bbrt a few months back at the suggestion of my ex, but I haven't had a single hookup from it. 

I think being a porn guy has made me picky, but the other part is this: most gay men are pricks. No follow-through, lies of all sorts, a string of bad life choices, and poor sex skills. I stopped trying.

I wonder if hookup apps are really the cause of our public spaces closing? Based on two pages of replies, none of them are any good with a few exceptions based on geography. People are preferring to meet in person once again? Hmm.

[alwaysready]

problem with a4a is that it is just over-run with spamsters. recon is better, but getting worse.

[phukhole]

I've had varying degrees of success from the apps. Just when I'm about to write one off, some hot fuck comes through and I stick with them a while longer.  Fo the most part, though, they aren't that reliable.  I DID have one day on sniffies when all of the planets aligned.  I was free and looking, so I logged on. I got a hit from a guy looking to nut in a hole (perfect match). Went to his place. He pumped his load into me and then I bounced. Was getting in the car and brought up the site. A guy pinged me from next door and he bred me too. I didn't even have to move the car!  That is by far the exception tho.  I'm lucky to get an actual hook up through any of the apps. Used to have bbrt, but he cancelled my account because I mentioned I was going to Horsemarket. He scours your chat messages and compares pics to make sure you don't create a new account.  It's a bit too big-brother for me, so I'm here and on telegram and sniffies and nastykinkpigs, asspig and doublelist. Recon never did much for me, either.

[NWUSHorny]

3 hours ago, leatherpunk16 said:

I wonder if hookup apps are really the cause of our public spaces closing? Based on two pages of replies, none of them are any good with a few exceptions based on geography. People are preferring to meet in person once again? Hmm.

If we could just get them to stop acting like they do on the apps when they are cruising in person, we would have it made. From traveling fairly extensively, my experience is that how a local area behaves on the apps is very similar (but more extreme) to how they act in in person cruising.

[bluedragon]

Grindr sometimes works, but you have to wade through so many fake pics, attention seekers, and timewasters. I don't think the design of the app is good, it also promotes just blocking people ASAP if they aren't 100% what you are looking for which is why I think it has been found to have such a bad effect on so many guys' mental health.
Scruff I have had very limited interactions on, seems mostly dead round here.
BBRT is the best site in my view for guys who are up for it (and who are into bareback obviously) but it only works in big cities. It's a paradise in London., but very slim pickings here in Dublin sadly....